"ALLEGED" MISTRESS...."ALLEGED". Ever since B-B-Bush lied to kill a million people, the definition of perspective of "corrupt" changed somewhat. Maybe we should invite the RepubliKlan congress to spend another 100 million to investigate it so they can use it to justify the thousands of RepubliKlan politicians across the country like this one.
Yes, the equivalence between misspellings and informal usage is complete. Utterly so.
Of course your first comment was a fragment! Oh no! So, commit grammar seppuku or whatever it is you people do. You have dishonored the brooding omnipresence in the sky of usage, the Form of the Good Usage.
"Consequently, one who uses alright, especially in formal writing, runs the risk that readers may view it as an error or as the willful breaking of convention."
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
My goodness, and look what we have! The risk of running into a pedant has been realized! Oh dear!
This isn't an academic paper, so I think we're cool. Unless you want to go to bat for pedantry again.
"ALLEGED" MISTRESS...."ALLEGED". Ever since B-B-Bush lied to kill a million people, the definition of perspective of "corrupt" changed somewhat. Maybe we should invite the RepubliKlan congress to spend another 100 million to investigate it so they can use it to justify the thousands of RepubliKlan politicians across the country like this one.
TheJdmartinjax 8 months ago
GOP = Guns Oil & Poverty
GOP = Give Osama a Pass
GOP = Gang of Pedophiles
AtlasShruggery 1 year ago
TURN FLORIDA RED!
fishbait888 3 years ago
Did Adam Long make this?
MA2FLALONG829 3 years ago
kiporen is a boob.
fluke111 3 years ago
You are imputing a great deal, that is, I am a Republican. I thought the ad was a good one, except for a glaring spelling/usage error.
There is equivalence, yes. On that we agree. Utterly so, as you put it.
It WAS a fragment. What of it?
I had to go look up "seppuku." Who's the pedant now?
kiporen 3 years ago
Yes, the equivalence between misspellings and informal usage is complete. Utterly so.
Of course your first comment was a fragment! Oh no! So, commit grammar seppuku or whatever it is you people do. You have dishonored the brooding omnipresence in the sky of usage, the Form of the Good Usage.
ps corrupt candidate is corrupt
NoumenalSoup 3 years ago
Nuonmeneal: Your rite. Hoo neads standerds. Prescriptivists r so, like, stoopid (or something).
kiporen 3 years ago
"Consequently, one who uses alright, especially in formal writing, runs the risk that readers may view it as an error or as the willful breaking of convention."
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
My goodness, and look what we have! The risk of running into a pedant has been realized! Oh dear!
This isn't an academic paper, so I think we're cool. Unless you want to go to bat for pedantry again.
NoumenalSoup 3 years ago
NoumenelSoup:
"Alright for all right has never been accepted as standard American English."
--Garner's Modern American Usage, 2d Ed.
Your pedantry is my standard American English.
kiporen 3 years ago